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Villas and cottages (1874)

Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 276

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ES. 271 DESIGN No. 24. (V. & W.) IRREGULAR BRICK VILLA. This study has been prepared for execution for agentleman residing in Newburgh, and is designed tosuit a very agreeable site commanding an extensiveview of the Hudson River. No contracts have atpresent been made, and I am therefore unable… … PLAN OF ROOFS a large hall, in which is a wide, open staircase leadingto the upper story. Where there is no second stair-case in a country house, this plan of arranging the 272 VILLAS AND COTTAGES. principal flight in the main hall is attended with sev-eral disadvantages, as the servants have to be…

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